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LAS VEGAS – Several products appearing for the first time at the LDI Show in Las Vegas this November received special recognition at the show at the event’s Debuting Product of the Year awards, in product categories ranging from Lighting to Projection, Staging & Rigging, Special Effects and Sound. For the Widget category, top honors went to Grid Show Systems’ Tour Node 8. RC4’s Magic Series 3 DMX4Dim received honorable mention. Pictured here is RC4 Wireless’ James David Smith at the company’s booth during the show.

FORT LAUDERDALE, FL – Zimmerman Advertising, an ad agency with a client list that includes CBS, Office Depot, ADT, Dunkin Donuts, among other national and international brands, applied its bold marketing strategy to its own home office by creating an three-story image on the building’s façade, visible from I-95. It features a bright red reproduction of the Zimmerman “Z,” with a single Iluminarc Ilumipanel 180 IP LED fixture adding to the visibility of the giant letter. Sound and Lighting Solutions installed the fixture.

SPOKANE, WA — LD Seth Jackson recently used 14 of Robe’s CycFX 8 fixtures on the upstage truss for Alice Cooper’s Raise The Dead ’tour, which also included a number of dates as special guests on Mötley Crüe’s All Bad Things Must Come To An End farewell tour. The CycFX 8 units traveled in Tyler Truss sections and were used for scenarios where space was too tight onstage for any ground-rows to up-light the backdrop … as well as to provide a unique reveal ensuring Cooper’s show had its own distinctive look and feel. The CycFX 8s were supplied by Bandit Lites.

CLEVELAND, OH – Vincent Lighting Systems (VLS) announced the launch of a new web store at https://shop.vls.com. The redesigned shopping platform offers expanded descriptions, more powerful search results and lower prices on its most popular items.

LOS ANGELES — The original spot for the 1980s/1990s nightclub, The Roxbury, the namesake for the Will Ferrel-Chris Kattan film, A Night at the Roxbury, is now occupied by a new meeting space, Project LA. (The Roxbury’s owner has since reopened another club, also called the Roxbury, at a different location a few miles away). For Project A, V Squared Labs’ Vello Virkhaus provided a design that includes Martin VC-Strips.

SANTA MONICA, CA — Riedel Communications’ MediorNet real-time network, RockNet audio system, and Artist digital matrix intercom system are being used in the Red Bull eSports studio. One eSports broadcast format that’s produced out of the Red Bull eSports studio pits two video gaming teams of five players against one another. As they play, MediorNet Modular frames take in a total of 20 HDMI POV video signals from the gaming consoles, convert them into HD-SDI, and carry them to the control room. 

LAS VEGAS, NV – The 15th Annual Latin Grammy Awards, staged at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, was attended by some of the biggest names in Latin music and a sold-out audience of nearly 17,000.  Almost 10 million television viewers – the highest figures to date – tuned in for some or all of the three-hour live broadcast on the Univision network. For the fifth consecutive year, the lighting was designed by Univision LD Carlos Colina. He once again chose Pointes for this year’s awards show.

EL PASO, TX – Each year, Fred Loya’s Christmas light show in El Paso, Texas, is one of the holiday season’s can’t miss spectacles and each year he uses Elation lighting to give his light show extra impact. This year Fred was approached by ABC Television to take part in “The Great Christmas Light Fight,” ABC’s Christmas lights competition, and came away the winner!